I’m in. The U of M, Forks area, Tuxedo forest, Little Mountain Park, Hwy 8 and the Perimeter (ha ha) all have enough caches that we could park in one place and go for a leisurely hike.

Maybe to simplify things, why not set up a regular weekly time & meeting point (like a local Sals, God knows there's enough of them) and just let people congregate before heading off.  No hassles other than indicating which is the Sals of Choice (Pembina Hwy near U of M, the bridge at the Forks, etc.) and whoever shows up can wait until the designated search time and head out with whoever else shows up.  This could be updated weekly on the MGCA website for all to see or a monthly sched posted.

Now if I can just manage to stay in town for the next six weeks, I'd love to join y'all (practising for Texas!).

grnbrg wrote:
 On the other hand, a huge group might not be nearly as managable. 

Depending on the interest and who wants to come, we could always do a couple of different groups to go to a couple of different locations (Assiniboine Forest, UofM Campus, etc.) and then all meet up after at one central location

 Suggestion: Once an area is selected, create a bookmark list of nearby caches that can be downloaded/printed/etc.

This can and will be done, I'm sure!

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Tim, send me an email with your cell number ... I'll let you guys know ahead of time if I'm planning on meeting up with you ...

I can't remember which groups' forum I was sharking around in a couple of weeks ago.  But they had a thread for posting such a thing on their forum.  You would simply post when you were planning on going caching, and a list of caches or an area and cachers would e-mail to let you know they would come.

An event would work too, but you would have to plan that further ahead.  Using the forums would work best for me.  But, I'm flexible.     

Since there was enough interest expressed here, my partner in crime and I (that would be TurdleEggs as the idea was originally his) have worked up an event listing to be posted soon (we hope) to gc.com.  We figured going through there would be easiest as not everybody reads these forums and its easier to keep track of things that way.  If it becomes a regular outing, we could perhaps go through the forums once people are aware of the regularness of the event.  Watch for the group caching event listing on a gc.com page near you soon and hope to see you all there!

ThreeTs wrote:

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Watch for the group caching event listing on a gc.com page near you soon and hope to see you all there!

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Might I suggest "Blitzing the Forks!"?



grnbrg.

dani_carriere wrote:

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Don't you need a 14 day head start on event caches? "Event caches should be submitted no less than two weeks prior to the date of the event, so that potential attendees will have sufficient notice to make their plans. Events are generally listed no more than three months prior to the date of the event, to avoid having the listing appear for a prolonged period of time on the nearest caches page and in the weekly e-mail notification of new caches. Exceptions are sometimes made for events that are designed to attract a regional, national or international group of geocachers. Contact your reviewer if you wish to set up such an event, which may be listed up to six months in advance."  -- Edited by dani_carriere at 12:19, 2006-05-16

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I did not know this.  You're just a wealth of info Dani, but why didn't you discover this earlier?!   I will post a reviewer note asking if they would please approve even though its short notice and if we did it again, we would give the required 14 days notice.

Next Thursday??  Oops ... OK ... I was all set to go out this week    Well, this gives time for more caches to be placed.

U of M’s got lost of caches in close proximity. Assiniboine Forest is good too, but some are getting archived off.

The group could pick up twelve caches on a ~7 km walk at the U of M. Thirteen if the Henri Boux Park Cache multi is included on the way to supper. We did eight caches comfortably in about 2-1/2 hours walking 5 km last time at The Forks.

Wisent's Cousin
Smartpark Construction Cam
Blitz the Quarterback
Burchill’s Botany Blitz
Edak-Rap
G.U.E. Magic Scroll Cache #69,105
Domenatrix - I'll be Blitzed!
Bison Castle Cache
PointPath
PointPath Two
A Walk on the Southern Riviera
A Wee Bit of Higher Education

June 29 @17:00?

We could trim a couple of outliers and easily get the walk down to 4 or 5 km. June 29 was completely arbitrary, so If a different date works better for somebody else . . . Slippery, are you out there?

There's only one of those caches I'm missing... Unfortunately, as usual, we both work until 17h00 outside of the city (and in the opposite direction from U of M!)
So, if you're heading out to supper afterwards, let us know... then you can tell us where to find the one we're missing -- or just save that one for last and we'll join up with you!

TurdleEggs wrote:

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We could trim a couple of outliers and easily get the walk down to 4 or 5 km. June 29 was completely arbitrary, so If a different date works better for somebody else . . . Slippery, are you out there?

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Ok, I just made it home from the last outting I had with you guys....10 days to make it home...sheese.

Got to Brandon, blew a motor and spent a week waiting for a replacement and then installing it. But I did get in some caching.

Imagine I was 2 &1/2 hours from you guys this weekend and spent my time pulling wrenchs...sigh

I checked my calander, and won't be in the city again until the night of the 25th and leaving in the afternoon of the 27.

Let me know and I'll join in...but will only accept the role of navigator due to you guys having all the expertice in the big city caches.

 

I could likely not make the caching but can take part in any dinner get together afterwards.  Shall I post it to gc.com then?  Fly me an email, Turdle-man!